Situation reports on the polio outbreak in Syria

Vaccinators outside an informal tented settlement in Deir Ez-Zor administering polio vaccine to children, as part of the campaign. Photo: WHO

Situation update 31 July 2018

No new cases of cVDPV2 have been reported in 2018. The total number of cVDPV2 cases remains 74.

Efforts to enhance surveillance for polioviruses continue. A new environmental surveillance site has been established in Mayadeen district of Deir Ez-Zor governorate, the epicenter of the outbreak. This takes the total number of environmental surveillance sites in Syria to 11.

Efforts to strengthen the Expanded Programme on Immunization to maintain high population immunity are ongoing. 86 routine immunization fixed centers in Idleb, Hama and Aleppo governorates have been restored.